US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 25 for "Detection of surgical devices within surgical systems" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,953, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Detection of surgical devices within surgical systems" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati) and Shane R. Adams (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein may include a surgical computing device that directs data communications to surgical networks. The surgical computing device may include a processor that is configured to determine a present network locus, wherein the present network locus is any of a first surgical network or a second surgical network; identify a dat...